Imitation brick facing.



PATENTED NOV. 26. 1907.

G. MORGAN. IMITATION BRICK FACING.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.17.19OU.

fnverafar UNITE STATES PATENT onion.

GEORGE MORGAN, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES C. (CARTER, OF

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

memoir BRICK secure.

i No. 872,003.

. Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Imitation Brick Facing, of which the following is a s eciflcation.

It is of the objects of this invention to provide a cheap, simple, strong, light and durable fire-proof faclng for walls .of buildings,

that can be readily manufactured by machinery and easily a plied to buildings in such a manner that the removal of sections thereof would be difficult.

This invention comprises a facing composed of interlocking metal plates fastened to a wall in combination'with fire-proofing filling material and elastic cement whereby the contraction and expansion of the metal facing of the building will not damage the ap earance of the building.

talso includes the metal plate and other features hereinafter more particularly pointed out. The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention:

Figure 1 is a fragmental view of a wall provided with this newly-invented imitation brick facing. Fig. 2 is a section of the same on line 00 Fig. 1, cutting through the interlocking side flanges. Fig. 3 is a sectionon line a Fig. 1, cutting through the end flanges and omitting the asbestos filler. Fig. 4 is a view of the face side of one of the metallic brick sections. Fig. 5 is a view of the re-' verse side of said section shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is an enlarged sectional detail taken on the same line as Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a view of the upper edge of the brick section. Fig. 8 shows the invention as applied on a brick or stone wall. Fig. 9 is an enlarged section on line as, Fig. 1, omitting the filler.

1 is'a late provided with two side flanges that bot slope in the same direction, the flange 2 slanting upwardly away from the middle of the late, and the other flange 3 sloping 11 war y toward the mid-line of the plate. e side flanges 2 and 3 are each provided with tongues 4 disposed at the same distance from the end of the late, and with a bar 5 and slot 6 to receive t e interlocking tongues or other plates.

i 7 is an angle-end flange at one end of the plate, and 8 is a straight-end flange. at the other end of the plate.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 17,1906. Serial No. 335.034.

Patented Nov. 26, 1807.

9 is the wall to applied.

10 designates perforations in the flanges to zpcleiive nails 11 to fasten the plates to the .12 designates asbestos or other fire-proofing filler in the cavity 13 formed between the side and end flanges 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the plate. 14 designates elastic cement in the joints between the sides and the ends of the'sections.

which the plates are to be In practice, thewall may be of wood,

brick, plaster, cement, or any-other suitable building material to which the sections may be fastened. The workman will applly a section at an appropriate place and secure the same by nails through the top slotted bar 5 and the angle-end flange 7, thus leaving the tongue 4 free to enter the slotof another section, and also leaving the upper slot 6 open to receive a tongue of another section. Subsequent sections will be applied in like manner, in each instance the lowermost tongue of one section bein .inserted in the uppermost slot of the prece ing section, and so on until the wall is covered, each section being nailed with two nails as before stated.-

In case the material of the wall on which the facing is to be applied is not adapted to hold nails, the facing may be impressed into a coating of cement 15 which may be applied tofbrick, stone, or other kinds of walls.

The surface of the sections may be finished either before or after application to the wall. In some cases an enamel coat 16 may be united with the metallic sections in the proc= ess of manufacture, and in other cases the plain metal may be painted either before or after being set in place'to imitate red, buff, or other colored brick.

The plates may be readily manufactured by the usual processes of punching and stamping.

, By slanting both the side or edge flanges 2 and 3 upwardly, as most clearly shown in Fig. .9, the plates shed water at the edge -joints when the artificial brick facing is a each of the facing plates is provided with flanges at its edges and ends, the opposite ends of the edge flan es being comp ementai'y to each other, so t t the plate is adapted at one end to engage another like plate at the end thereof corresponding with the other end of said first-named facing-plate.

WhatIelaimis: v An imitation brick facing comprising plates each provided at its edges with flanges both v tive to the tongues to receive like tongues of fothei'. plates, the late being provided at one. end with an ang'e flange perforated to receivea nail and at the ot adapted to engage an angle flange of another er end with a flange 15 plate. v

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto'set my hand at 'Los Angeles jCalifo'rniathis 6th day of September 1906.

In presence'of e- JAMES P. Townsmm JULIA TOWNSEND.

Y GEORGE MORGAN. 

